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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1874-1] New nss packages fix several vulnerabilities (1

    From Moritz Muehlenhoff@1:229/2 to All on Wed Aug 26 21:10:11 2009
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1874-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
    August 26, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package : nss
    Vulnerability : several
    Problem type : local(remote)
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE Id(s) : CVE-2009-2404 CVE-2009-2408 CVE-2009-2409

    Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Network Security
    Service libraries. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
    identifies the following problems:

    CVE-2009-2404

    Moxie Marlinspike discovered that a buffer overflow in the regular
    expression parser could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

    CVE-2009-2408

    Dan Kaminsky discovered that NULL characters in certificate
    names could lead to man-in-the-middle attacks by tricking the user
    into accepting a rogue certificate.

    CVE-2009-2409

    Certificates with MD2 hash signatures are no longer accepted
    since they're no longer considered cryptograhically secure.


    The old stable distribution (etch) doesn't contain nss.

    For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
    version 3.12.3.1-0lenny1.

    For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
    version 3.12.3.1-1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your nss packages.

    Upgrade instructions
    - --------------------

    wget url
    will fetch the file for you
    dpkg -i file.deb
    will install the referenced file.

    If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
    sources.list as given below:

    apt-get update
    will update the internal database
    apt-get upgrade
    will install corrected packages

    You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
    footer to the proper configuration.


    Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny
    - --------------------------------

    Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss/nss_3.12.3.1-0lenny1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1401 1dbc1107598064214fa689733495c56c
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss/nss_3.12.3.1.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 5320607 750839c9c018a0984fd94f7a9cc3dd7f
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss/nss_3.12.3.1-0lenny1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 52489 96f62370296f7d18a9748429ac99525f

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss/libnss3-1d-dbg_3.12.3.1-0lenny1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 3048842 6b764e28ae56542572a4275e50c4d303
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss/libnss3-dev_3.12.3.1-0lenny1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 267250 b00f4c63a8d27a54fb562029411daf0e
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss/libnss3-1d_3.12.3.1-0lenny1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1204106 c8ba098d6cc0af39ab93cd728ca7bb19
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss/libnss3-tools_3.12.3.1-0lenny1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 342544 2191bbcd5708f719392c8489bde7a0c6

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss/libnss3-dev_3.12.3.1-0lenny1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 256944 7a31770b748ff56ba45ac55044960b6d
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss/libnss3-1d_3.12.3.1-0lenny1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1069628 eea22c2ccef5375689fe581de8152a61
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss/libnss3-tools_3.12.3.1-0lenny1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 321374 1b86ac1f27fee3287f1418973595a4e9
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss/libnss3-1d-dbg_3.12.3.1-0lenny1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 3099080 f4112f9f06d87e6139097a27e1419664

    arm architecture (ARM)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss/libnss3-1d-dbg_3.12.3.1-0lenny1_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 2900162 21604ffa61b7f5049f0f919030fec0f0
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss/libnss3-1d_3.12.3.1-0lenny1_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1011344 78bc0d853274ca2fc9f36752ed9f9c51
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss/libnss3-tools_3.12.3.1-0lenny1_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 308766 e7547e80f6726b91611f9b92d83aa6b3
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss/libnss3-dev_3.12.3.1-0lenny1_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 254374 ead00e7f25c47cc4b8b1ed99801c4ab9

    armel architecture (ARM EABI)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss/libnss3-dev_3.12.3.1-0lenny1_armel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 257820 a17086cca6fdaf26e5a6b3fb84ae476d
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss/libnss3-tools_3.12.3.1-0lenny1_armel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 308198 f24e01f4b2396193a314a965555374e8
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss/libnss3-1d_3.12.3.1-0lenny1_armel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1017054 d1086599e6a1904548804d538f90c810
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss/libnss3-1d-dbg_3.12.3.1-0lenny1_armel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 2923084 b5e1d56b749941124c8b91f063d44c19

    hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss/libnss3-dev_3.12.3.1-0lenny1_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 263122 b611c51dae677b42befac5f2e638d941
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss/libnss3-tools_3.12.3.1-0lenny1_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 347148 c725c156c6cd17d09421e066548c673d
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss/libnss3-1d_3.12.3.1-0lenny1_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1169014 d5858e4c11ca0b88f59c24af1a251eea
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss/libnss3-1d-dbg_3.12.3.1-0lenny1_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 2948790 92a46a3cd9b2db3c7f0d07d817a03ba4

    i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss/libnss3-1d_3.12.3.1-0lenny1_i386.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 957706 21a666157a0a208d8405df062b3276d2
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss/libnss3-tools_3.12.3.1-0lenny1_i386.deb

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